Just as heliocentrism or Darwinism demanded that many religions had to readjust to a new state of things, also the fossil and geological evidence that contradicts the claims of some holy books are indigestible for those who believe at face value and without the ability to self-correct everything what is poured there. For that reason, … Read more
It measures 1.20 meters and weighs more than 1,100 kilos that would have lived in the area 66.3 million years ago . They are the workings of the gigantic skull of Tyrannosaurus rex recently found by two American paleontologists, volunteers of the Burke Museum, they have found in the north of the State of Montana. … Read more
Australopithecus afarensis , a species to which Lucy belongs, discovered by the team of Donald Johanson, Yves Coppens and Tim White in 1974 at the Hadar site, and which existed between 2.9 and 3.9 million years ago, is considered our common ancestor. According to a study by the University of Texas at Austin, and published … Read more
At the Vallcebre site, in Barcelona, a fossil impression has just been found, dating from the Upper Cretaceous, and which is unique in Europe. It is the skin of a dinosaur, which 65 million years ago left the mark of the scales of its skin here , by leaning on the mud of a river … Read more
Found more than a decade ago by a fossil collector (Jamie Hiscocks, near Bexhill in Sussex), the photo of the brown pebble above has turned out to be, after careful analysis, the first example of fossilized brain tissue from a dinosaur. . This is at least as suggested by a recent study published by researchers … Read more
A new species of long giant (mosasaur) has been discovered by a team of Chilean researchers. This huge marine predator has been found fossilized in Antarctic rocks, and lived 65 million years ago , towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. Baptized as Kaikaifilu hervei , it was ten meters long, which makes … Read more
Dinosaurs are already extinct 65 million years ago, but they inhabited it for a long time: 165 million years (humans have only been around 2 million years). Despite the fact that most dinosaur species are vegetarian, we have often imagined them bloodthirsty: not for nothing, the British scientist Richard Owen coined the word dinosaur in … Read more
The keys to understanding how whales went from having teeth to "baleen" have been revealed thanks to the fossil of the skull of a prehistoric whale, as reported by the Museum of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia). The fossil, dubbed "Alfred", belongs to a whale about 25 million years old . It was found on the northwestern … Read more
In the Atapuerca site , evidence has been found that 1.2 million years ago of what our ancestors ate, the oldest evidence so far (and also the first test of oral hygiene). The finding has been made after the analysis of a dental calculus of the oldest hominid in Europe . The study has been … Read more
Researchers at North Carolina State University have succeeded in recovering collagen peptides , relatively small molecules that comprise between two and a maximum of 100 amino acids, from an 80-million-year-old Brachylophosaurus , which will expand our ability to study the fossil record at the level molecular. This also confirms earlier original dinosaur collagen findings first … Read more
"In the fossil record there is very little evidence of food inside the carcasses of herbivorous dinosaurs and, until now, it had only been described in hadrosaurs and ankylosaurs," explained José Ignacio Canudo , principal coordinator of the Aragosaurus group at the University from Zaragoza that has published a study on what has been found … Read more
Using an archaeological database of human burials of the remains of thousands of Central Californians dating back more than 1,000 years, it is suggested that violent death rates in populated prehistoric California exceed those of World War II. This, according to the principal investigator of this study , Mark W. Allen , an anthropologist at … Read more
As if it were a worm subjected to mutant rays, a new species called Websteroprion armstrongi has been found: a giant worm, which could have reached up to a meter in length, and had large jaws. The worm lived 400 million years ago and remained in a museum since 1990, however it is not until … Read more
3,770 million years is at least the age of the remains of microorganisms that have been found in Canada, and that have become the oldest fossils that we have evidence. Specifically. small filaments and tubes formed by bacteria that lived in iron encased in layers of quartz in the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (NSB), in Quebec, … Read more
Brian Choo’s team from Australia’s Flinders University, together with members of the China Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology , have found fossil remains of a fish that lived 400 million years ago. The results of the finding have been published in the journal PLoS ONE . Sparalepis tingi Baptized as Sparalepis tingi , this … Read more
The Sidrón cave, located in Piloña (Asturias), has provided the best collection of Neanderthals in the Iberian Peninsula. Discovered in 1994, around 2,500 skeletal remains have been recovered from at least 13 individuals of both sexes and different ages who lived there approximately 49,000 years ago. An investigation by an international team of scientists, led … Read more
The use of a sharp object to remove diseased cavity tissue and tar fillings appears to already exist in the Ice Age, 13,000 years ago, according to findings from a group of researchers, whose conclusions have been published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology . Two incisors These teeth, two upper incisors, were found … Read more
Symbiotes are highly specialized creatures that take advantage of the abundant resources and protection within the nests of ants, wasps, and social bees or termites. It is precisely the termite symbionts that were trapped in this piece of amber a whopping 99 million years ago . Thus, these fossils represent the oldest known termites. Thermophiles … Read more
According to an international team of scientists with the participation of the CSI, DNA from ancient human beings has been detected in cave sediments without skeletal remains, including that of El Sidrón, in Asturias. The detection technique used even identified ancient human DNA sequences from places where the Neanderthal presence has been proposed but never … Read more
A new species, Chenanisaurus barbaricus , was one of the last dinosaurs on Earth and was among the species wiped out when an asteroid crashed 66 million years ago, according to a new fossil study conducted by the Milner Center for Evolution in the University of Bath. The study also suggests that after the disintegration … Read more
A new species of giant bird-like dinosaur, called Beibeilong sinensis , has been described by a joint Sino-Canadian-Slovak team of researchers in Henan, China. The dinosaur made nests as big or larger than a truck tire (2-3 meters in diameter and probably contained two dozen or more eggs). Beibeilong sinensis This new species lived about … Read more
A pressure equivalent to the weight of three small cars at the same time. This was a bite of the Tyrannosaurus rex. That is, it could bite with almost 3,600 kilograms of force, which is more than double the bite force of the largest living crocodiles , which holds the record among the animals that … Read more
Coprolites, the fossilized feces of animals from the past, such as dinosaurs, contain information about the animal’s lifestyle and diet that cannot be obtained from studying its skeleton. To improve their study, paleontologists from the University of Uppsala and ESRF Grenoble, thanks to the synchrotron, a type of particle accelerator in this laboratory, have conceived … Read more
Recently described fossils place our species, Homo sapiens, 100,000 years earlier than previously believed , that is, 300,000 years ago. Furthermore, the fossils have been found in Morocco. Specifically, five primitive human beings have been found at a site at Jebel Irhoud , in Morocco, along with evidence of stone tools, animal bones and the … Read more